Year: I had a good time when I was young

Chapter 541 539 Box office hit and return to China

After coming out of Universal Studios, it was already 9 o'clock in the evening. Chu Xiangqian was not in a hurry to return to the ranch. Instead, he took Feifei to stay in a hotel.

I had promised before that I would find an opportunity to take her out to play alone.

This time I flew to Los Angeles, so I decided to take Feifei with me. Ten or eight days would be enough to take Feifei to visit several famous scenic spots in the western United States.

As for Margaret, we’ll wait until Millie Girl is officially released.

At night, Feifei, leaning in Chu Qianqian's arms and looking at the lights of Los Angeles in the distance, the only thought in her heart was that she was definitely the happiest woman in the world.

Not long after, Feifei turned around and put her arms around Chu Qianqian's neck, stood on tiptoes and whispered something in Chu Qianqian's ear.

"Husband, let's go wash up and go to bed early so as not to delay the business tomorrow."

Chu Qianqian chuckled, picked up Feifei and went to the bathroom. Soon, the sound of singing came from inside.

Chu Xiangqian was busy enjoying himself. The 20 reporters and film company employees who followed him to Los Angeles were so busy that they didn't even have time to sleep.

In order to expand the popularity of the movie Millie, Chu Xiangqian thought of many ways, but finally decided to do a flash mob.

First there was a 5-minute singing and dancing performance in Los Angeles. After the dance, the main actors and dancers in the crew split up without hesitation.

This novelty will definitely attract countless young people.

When Millie Girl is officially released in five days, it won't be too early or too late, and it should be able to attract people who have been attracted by the pop-up event in recent days to go to the cinema.

At 8 o'clock in the morning the next day, in the square of the busiest business district in Los Angeles, the main actors of Miss Millie, plus more than dancers, suddenly formed several lines in the square.

Then the music started, and the team of nearly thirty people originally attracted the attention of people rushing to work in the square.

Now that the dance is going on, even if someone is almost late, they will subconsciously slow down or simply stand still and look at the dancing team.

Five minutes later, when the time was up, the crew immediately dispersed in all directions.

Not to mention ordinary people, even the police are fooled.

And if you really want to arrest people, the current laws and regulations are really not useful.

In the afternoon, in the top ten major cities in California, people were playing in crowded places, dancing and leaving.

Early the next morning, not only the media in California were reporting, but dozens of media outlets in the United States, large and small, received an envelope.

It contains not only photos, but also articles explaining and reporting on the event in detail.

In other words, just publish the photos and articles directly in the newspaper.

Experts will know at a glance that this is premeditated propaganda, but the editor-in-chief of the newspaper also knows that if he does not report it, he will fall behind other newspapers.

Except for a few die-hards, the newspapers that received the envelope were basically reporting on the flash mob.

After four days, in addition to the dancers Chu Xiangqian spent money to find, he also asked people to go to high schools or universities and organized high school students and college students to play flash mobs.

The first 20 reporters or film company employees who followed Chu Xiangqian needed to spend some money to attract high school and college students.

But in the same school, a team playing flash mob appeared.

Others don't need to spend money to buy them. They just feel that this kind of limelight is important and they cannot lag behind others. Many classes or clubs have begun to spontaneously organize people to dance outside the school.

When Millie Girl was officially released in China, reporters soon discovered that the team doing the flash mob in the newspaper for the first time were actually the protagonists and dancers in the movie.

As soon as the news was released, a large number of young people were attracted to the cinema.

In Chu Xiangqian's eyes, this movie was not interesting at all, but in the eyes of people of this era, the movie was fairly well-made.

The plot and the performance of the actors are also good, otherwise, Universal Pictures' executives would not have predicted that the box office would exceed 10 million.

On the first day it was released in 800 cinemas across the country, the box office exceeded US$75.

The single venue was US$937.5, which was not a good performance, but it also broke the opening record for musical and dance movies.

The box office the next day exceeded 80. In terms of theaters, they immediately wanted to increase the number of theaters showing the film to 1500.

According to this trend, the box office in the first month is likely to exceed 2000 million.

It's possible that the film will have a box office of over RMB 30 to RMB 40 million within two or three months of its release.

Not only were Decca Records and Yiguo Music ecstatic about the recognition, everyone at Lianhuanqiu Pictures instantly became respectful towards Chu Xiangqian.

He Guanchang, the status of Wrinkle Huaihe and the staff behind Hong Kong Island has also been raised several levels.

For Hollywood actors and behind-the-scenes actors, as long as the movies they participate in become hits, their future income and fame will skyrocket.

Under this premise, issues such as skin color and ideas are not problems at all.
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That day, Chu Xiangqian and Feifei were having lunch at a French restaurant in Santa Barbara County. Zhang Tianzhi suddenly walked over quickly and whispered in his ear, "Boss, Her Royal Highness Margaret has arrived at the ranch."

Chu Qianqian was stunned. He had agreed to arrive tomorrow, why was it a day early?

Worried that something had happened, Chu Qianqian could only finish his lunch in a hurry and take Feifei to the ranch.

But when he arrived at the ranch and saw Margaret throwing herself into his arms with a surprised expression on her face, Chu Xiangqian knew that something was definitely not wrong.

Maybe it was just that this little girl couldn't wait and wanted to see him sooner, so she flew over a day earlier.

As for Feifei, Margaret already knew of her existence when she was on Hong Kong Island.

Since Feifei has tacitly agreed to continue to follow Chu Qianqian, she will not object now.

He even took the initiative to win over Feifei, all for the purpose of forming a clique or wanting to know more about Chu Xiangqiang's affairs in Hong Kong Island.

Before the luggage was packed at noon, Margaret eagerly pulled Chu Qianqian to take a nap with her.

It is said that it is catching up on sleep, but in fact it is of course a lack of cleaning.

In just half an hour, Margaret was defeated, and in the end she had no choice but to ask Feifei for help.

Although Feifei was embarrassed at first, when it came time to sing, her whole mind was focused on singing.

Not to mention, this kind of relationship between comrades is really easy to promote mutual relations.

During dinner that night, Margaret had already taken the initiative to let Feifei sit next to her. During the meal, she did not forget to chat with Feifei from time to time.

Early the next morning, Chu Xiangqian called Kumiko, "Inform Matsuno that the business with the mafia will continue."

Chu Xiangqian is actually not short of money now, but the food supply cannot be cut off.

Kumiko nodded quickly and went to make a call. Chu Xiangqian then called Yongdao's lawyer.

Ask what happened to Frank Abagnale Jr. after he was extradited back to his country.

Because there is no direct evidence that Frank Abagnale Jr. made fake checks. The prosecutor in charge of his case could only accuse him of fraud, illegal use of fake checks, and illegal entry and exit.

The first two can still be debated, but there is no solution at all regarding illegal entry and exit.

In other words, even if Frank Jr. denies all the accusations, he will not be able to escape guilt on this one.

This also gave the prosecutors enough reason to imprison Frank Jr. Then slowly look for new evidence.     But it’s not impossible.

The bank didn't care how many years Frank was sentenced to. What they were most concerned about was how to identify fake checks and how to make checks that were more difficult to counterfeit.

In order not to go to jail, little Frank was still thinking about the business that Chu Xiangqian had mentioned before, which could make a lot of money.

After the lawyer's persuasion, I proactively asked my lawyer and prosecutor to discuss the possibility of reducing the sentence or even not going to jail.

After hearing the lawyer's suggestion, Chu Xiangqian couldn't help but laugh.

When Matsuno sent 1 million US dollars to the ranch, Chu Xiangqian asked him to notify Frank to help find some fake checks.

As long as fake checks become rampant again in the short term, prosecutors and banks will be more willing to settle with Frank Jr. in order to find the forger and identify the fake checks faster.

The next day, Chu drove forward and headed south.

When we approached the border, we put on horses and crossed the Magnesium-Mexico border. We flew a small plane from Tijuana City to Panama City.

After several transactions, the handover process became smoother and smoother.

Chicago Mafia boss Frank Sr. took $1 million in cash to the beach house and handed it over to Pablo's cousin Gustavo.

Chu Xiangqian took away a full 10 tons of wheat from the warehouse area.

10 tons is equivalent to 2 million catties, which is enough to feed 2 million people for a day. If it were replaced around the capital, these 2 million catties would be enough to feed 7 million people for a month.

In addition to the 11 tons of wheat and 36.3 tons of corn obtained at the end of November, there will basically be no food shortage in the capital and several provinces around the capital in the next three to five months.

Chu Xiangqian can be regarded as a person with countless living lives and immeasurable merits.

Unfortunately, Pablo wanted to buy more food from South America to offset the cost of transporting the money out of the United States.

However, Colombia itself is not a major grain-producing country, and if you buy it from Brazil, the price is dozens of cents per bushel more expensive than that of your country.

This time Pablo only transported 3 tons of wheat, and in the end he had no choice but to ask old Frank for help.

Or, let Chu Xiangqian transport 2 million US dollars to Panama City, and directly pay Chu Xiangqian 6 million to draw the result.

But Old Frank had something in his mind, since Pablo and his cousin Gustavo didn't have the ability to obtain a large amount of grain.

Just because they can't do this business doesn't mean that the Chicago Mafia can't do it.

US$600 million is enough to buy 16.4 tons of wheat.

Taking a commission of 600 of 0.3 million again, it is 180 million US dollars, which is almost equal to 5 tons of wheat.

Frank Sr. was able to earn two to three hundred thousand dollars as pocket money from it.

This was not difficult at all for Frank Sr., even to avoid being noticed by agencies like the FBI.

Frank Sr. has recently been reaching out to Canadian farmers.

As long as you buy wheat and ship it to a port in the southern part of the country, you don't need to change ships. After clearing the customs at the dock, you can just leave the port and ship it directly to Panama City.

There won't even be a record of it.

Chu Xiangqian helped Pablo transport 2 million US dollars from the country again. This time Pablo only had 3 tons of wheat.

After deducting 1 million, Chu Xiangqian directly took away 5 million in cash.

For Pablo and Gustavo, the 5 million in cash was like cutting their flesh.

It's not that they are reluctant to part with 5 million, but in the minds of the Pablo brothers, the cash that could have been 2 million has now become 1500 million.

Chu Xiangqian didn't care so much. He packed 3 tons of grain into the Novice Village warehouse, immediately flew back to Tijuana, got up and crossed the border, and then drove back to the ranch.

It is already February 2th, and there is only one week left before the Chinese New Year.

After Chu Qianqian spent the New Year with his master, his wife, his uncle and others, he began to prepare things and planned to fly back to the capital.

Margaret wanted to follow, but Chu Xiangqian refused without even thinking this time.

In fact, Margaret also knew that even if she went to China as a private person, it would be very troublesome.

He could only pouted and asked Chu Xiangqian to go to England to spend some time with her in early March after celebrating the New Year.

Chu Xiangqian printed this without any hesitation.

The next day, Margaret went to the airport to send Chu Qianqian and Feifei off to the plane.

Before leaving, Margaret not only pestered Chu Qianqian to rub her hair together, but also pulled Feifei in the end and repeatedly told her to take good care of her man.

Feifei could only keep nodding.

At the beginning, Feifei was not only frightened but also excited about the repeated attempts to win over the princess of a country.

But as he joined forces with Margaret, he played more friendly matches with Chu Xiangqian.

The so-called princess halo slowly disappeared.

In addition, Chu Xiangqian said more than once in front of Feifei that the so-called royal family and nobles were actually just rich people with more rules.

After being in contact with them for a long time, you will find that they are no different from ordinary people.

So even though Feifei kept her attitude low in front of Margaret as always, she no longer had any fear or awe of Margaret in her heart.

On February 2, the plane landed at the airport in Beijing.

Before getting off the plane, Chu Xiangqian looked through the window and saw Xue Jianguo, Xue Jinglan, Hong Kong Sheng, and Ehime standing next to two cars and staring at the plane.

And looking at the fashionable clothes of Xue Jinglan, Hong Kong Sheng and Ehime, Chu Xiangqian knew that these three sisters must have lived in the courtyard at the front door.

After getting off the plane, Xue Jinglan and Hong Kong Sheng wanted to throw themselves into Chu Qianqian's arms, but looking at the crowd around them, the two little girls could only endure their longing, took Chu Qianqian into the car, and drove straight to the three doors at the front door. Enter the hospital.

When they arrived at the place, Xue Jianguo originally wanted to chat with Chu Xiangqian, but when he saw his sister's disgusted expression, he immediately knew that he was not going to stay for lunch.

He could only shake his head helplessly and said to Chu Qianqian, "Qianqian, you rest today, and I will come back to you tomorrow."

Chu nodded forward, but he guessed in his heart that it must be related to food.

Don't look at yourself. In the past few months, I have obtained 7 to 80 tons of wheat and other grains for the Celestial Empire, which greatly alleviated the food shortage around the capital.

But the scope expanded to the entire Chinese dynasty, and the 80 tons of grain was still a drop in the bucket.

Chu Qianqian shook his head helplessly, but he was not too anxious.

Anyway, I can basically get more than ten or hundreds of thousands of tons of grain every month.

This is much better than waiting until the end of 61 to buy food in the previous life.

(End of this chapter)